Aesop's Fables

The Horse And The Ass

A Horse, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway. The
Ass, being heavily laden, moved slowly out of the way. "Hardly," said
the Horse, "can I resist kicking you with my heels." The Ass held
his peace, and made only a silent appeal to the justice of the gods.
Not long afterwards the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent
by his owner to the farm. The Ass, seeing him drawing a dungcart,
thus derided him: "Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings,
thou who are thyself reduced to the condition you so lately treated
with contempt?'

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